Delicious Death

Destination Unknown
To Anthonywho likes foreign travel as much as I do

UK

Collins, London, Nov. 1954

John Bull, Sep.25-Oct.23 1954

US

Dodd Mead, New York, 1955 as "So Many Steps to Death"

Chicago Tribune, Apr.12-Jun.9 1955 as 'Destination X'

Plot

When a number of leading scientists disappear without trace, concern grows within the intelligence services. Are they being kidnapped? Blackmailed? Brainwashed? One woman appears to hold the key to the mystery. Unfortunately, Olive Betterton now lies dying from injuries sustained in a Moroccan plane crash.
Meanwhile, in a Casablanca hotel room, Hilary Craven prepares to take her own life. But her suicide attempt is about to be interrupted by a man who will offer her an altogether more thrilling way to die...